School: Ardgroom (roll number 12261)
- Location:
- Ardgroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Hurdail
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- About twenty years ago the people did a lot of fishing around here. Every dark night they used go out with a sceine to catch mackerel. There were about sixteen men joined on the sceine altogether. They used leave a strand called cuas, and go as far as a place called Dúna, see would they see any fish.
Every night when the men used come to the strand, they used sit down on a rock by the strand until it used get dark. As soon as it used get dark a object like a horse used run out of the water and gallop up the strand.
He used do the same thing every night. When they used come in he used be running around a field near the strand pulling(continues on next page)- Collector
- Timothy Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Sullivan